Traditional Black and White Photography

Stories - Karri Canopy Performance 2005

The karri forest canopy aerial performance images were on the 5th of January 2005 near Northcliffe. This session took, I think, four years since the performer first suggested the idea. The image discussed here was made using Kodak HIE infra red film to enhance the feeling of unreality. There is also a set of square images with normal film, but the performer prefers the infra red

She is no longer named, as in these enlightened days of neo-prudery, naming her name on my old websife gave an opeing for the Googlebots to hook into for searches about her. This in turn affercted her career for a short while

John Austin

John Austin's black & white silver gelatin photographs are in many collections, including the National Portrait Gallery; the Art Gallery of Western Australia; the Australian National Library; Curtin University, Bunbury Regional Art Gallery; Western Australian Department of Justice and corporate and private collections in Australia, Singapore, the USA, South America and England.

" . . . [his work] will continue to remind us what has been, what is happening now , , , and what this means for the future of humanity"